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Hunter, Sonja. Investigating a bilingual advantage when inhibiting irrelevant speech: inhibiting bilingual irrelevant speech. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-wb41-w635

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TitleInvestigating a bilingual advantage when inhibiting irrelevant speech: inhibiting bilingual irrelevant speech
NameHunter, Sonja (author); Payne, Lisa (chair); van der Wel, Robrecht (internal member); Luo, Rufan (internal member); Rutgers University; Camden Graduate School
Date Created2021
Other Date2021-05 (degree)
SubjectBilingualism, Psychology
Extent1 online resource (iii, 54 pages)
DescriptionAlthough there has been much research into bilingual language processing, and the advantages that are associated with bilingualism, not much research has been conducted on the role of attention in bilingual processing. This study uses the irrelevant speech effect paradigm, a recall task that plays irrelevant speech during memorization in order to study attentional control in language processing. This study will be the one of the few to incorporate the use of the irrelevant speech task to investigate the bilingual advantage. This will help produce a better understanding of the impact that attention has on inhibition and working memory in individuals who are bilingual. Two conditions of irrelevant speech were used in this study, English and Spanish, with a short-term memory verbal recall in English. Contrary to expectations, we found that English speaking monolinguals had better accuracy on the English serial recall than their bilingual peers on both irrelevant speech conditions. The two irrelevant speech conditions were equally distracting as there were no differences between conditions in monolingual and in bilingual. Implications for the bilingual advantage and suggestions for further research are discussed in further detail.
NoteM.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-wb41-w635
LanguageEnglish
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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